Former broker Fabio Beraldo Rigol, 47, reportedly moved into the creepy catacomb in Santa Isabel after his business went bust and he turned to drugs.

He claims his family “disowned” him so he asked his dead pal, who’d died some years before, if he could move in.

“I’m more afraid of the living than the dead. I’ve never seen a ghost. It gets a bit quiet here sometimes, but I’m not a big talker, so it suits me,” he told G1.

“When it’s raining I stay inside. I never want for anything. When I need people there is always someone who gives it to me. God never lets me go hungry,” added Popo, as he is nicknamed.

But Rigol said he one day hoped to move out of his makeshift home.

“I still want to have my own house, even if it’s just a bedroom and a bathroom. I want to go back to work if there’s a chance. My life hasn’t finished yet,” he said.